Used in a Sentence

penalization

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for penalization.

Editorial note

Have known people only spending 10k per month that bounced back from penalization in 2-3 months.

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Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

The act of punishing; punishment.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of penalization gathered in one view.

noun

The act of punishing; punishment.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for penalization.

Example sentences

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Have known people only spending 10k per month that bounced back from penalization in 2-3 months.

2

Perhaps OP thinks that the extremely shady spam tactics the site clearly uses in themselves deserve penalization up the wazoo.

3

Downranking sites because other sites are serving content/users more effectively isn't a penalization it's a downrank.

4

It’s implicit rather than explicit penalization, which feels more honest than artificially adjusting one person’s weight.

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Is it time for HN to review whether the upvotes-vs-comments penalization-heuristic still makes sense?

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A few months ago, kens wrote a detailed black-box analysis about the penalization system.

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The whole case with the delisting/penalization and subsequent(and extremely speedy) re-listing of RapGenius is a great example of Google's current arbitrary practices.

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Can you add some kind of gamified penalization for people who are always no-shows?

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I think the solution for HDR is similar penalization based on log luminance or some other reasonable metric.

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Ah I mistakenly remember a similar post by Matt saying there would be penalization for that.

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Government agencies like the DEA benefit greatly from penalization of drugs.

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It's being actively censored, and sometimes the motives being the penalization are obnoxious; everything that doesn't directly promote california imperialism gets shunted to the side.

Quote examples

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It seems like a weighted penalization could be implemented, potentially looking for red-flag words like "pedantic", or "not to be *".

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Penalization for adding additional whitespace between identifiers in some situations: "[one,two,three]", for example, I personally like adding a space after the comma and do it automatically.

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Also if you think about it, if the team succeeded in delivering "the thing", then the manager would think it's partially because of their managing, and so he/she would believe a salary bump is deserved When things go south, no penalization is made.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use penalization in a sentence?

Have known people only spending 10k per month that bounced back from penalization in 2-3 months.

What does penalization mean?

The act of punishing; punishment.

What part of speech is penalization?

penalization is commonly used as noun.